How to Download and Add DVD collection to my iPad Air (2) for watching?

Nowadays iPad Air 2 is one of the most popular portable multimedia devices. It is a perfect tool not only for listening to music but also for watching your favorite DVD collection on iPad Air 2. In fact, all the new features indicate that iPad Air 2 is one of the greatest devices to play movies. It has the 9.7-inch display with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels, thinner design, upgraded 64-bit A8X chip (40% faster CPU than iPad Air) leading to much better performance running on iOS 8.1.

Though iPad Air 2 support many video formats playback, DVD is still not allowed directly played on iPad Air 2. But for most outdoor enthusiasts, they would like to take the DVD movies with them outside. And Apple doesn’t seem to load a DVD-ROM on the new iPad Air 2, which are still the issues with many DVD collectors since DVDs takes a lot of space and are nit-pick at portable players. So it’s urgent to save the end file as something that isn’t too large and make it compatible with the iPad Air 2.

To be frank, it is necessary to take advantage of a professional DVD ripper to make DVD to iPad Air 2 conversion more effortlessly. You may rely on Handbrake for DVD to iPad Air 2 ripping. But the upshot is disappointing as most DVDs are bogged down with copy protection which Handbrake cannot handle, not to mention the relatively backward devices support. Aimersoft DVD to iPad Air 2 Ripper, the top-notch, safe, easy-to-use and user-friendly DVD ripping software, enables you to quickly convert any DVDs (even latest protected commercial DVDs) to almost all popular Apple devices, such as DVD to iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 3, DVD to iPhone 6/6 plus, iPhone 5s/5c, and delivers high video/audio quality. The versatile editing tools and adjustable parameters are provided to meet the needs of advance option settings.

Well, ahead of DVD to iPad Air 2 conversion, let’s have a glimpse of the new iPad Air 2 supported video formats:

After you add your movie, you can choose any titles or chapters that you want to convert by ticking the check boxes before them.

Step 2. Choose iPad Air preset as the output format

Choose your iPad model from the Apple devices output preset as the output format, which will remove all the incompatibility issue for you. Note that you can customize the settings for the output by specifying format and destination folder.

Step 3. Start the DVD to iPad Air 2 conversion

Select an output folder for the converted file and then click the “Start” button to begin the conversion. All the conversion tasks will be done at fast speed and you will get a high output quality. You can choose to shut down your computer or open the output folder after conversion, so you don’t have to sit before your computer waiting for the conversion to finish. It is the easiest and common way to convert only needing 3 simple steps.

When the conversion is done, you will need to proceed with several extra steps below to copy DVD to iPad Air 2 on your computer.

Click the menu icon in the top left corner on iTunes, then choose “Add File to Library…”. Select the movies (one or more) and click “Open”.

3. Check the added movies.

Switch to “Movies” category, you will find the movies loaded to iTunes library on your Windows (or Mac).

In case you wanna add movies to iTunes library without copying them, you can click the top-left corner menu, choose “Preferences”, head to “Advanced” and uncheck the “Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library” box. As you see below, you can also change the path of iTunes media folder.

As long as the movies (or other media) added to iTunes, you are able to use iTunes to sync movies to your iPad Air 2 as well as iOS device via the apple USB cable. Similarly, you can also follow this step to add music files to your iTunes library.

Aimersoft DVD Ripper provides me the simplest way to rip and copy a disney DVD to Huld 2 tablet for my kids. All I do is to slip the disc to DVD tray and select what chapters I want to copy and DVD Copy does the rest. After ten minutes or so, I get an exact copy of DVD movie.